Describing cross-border Terrorism as a "core" concern, India Tuesday said Pakistan would have to do "much more" in addressing it before other aspects of the relations can be pursued.
India's External Affairs Minister S M Krishna tol…
A fire service officer Was on Tuesday sentenced to nine-year imprisonment by a court here for demanding and accepting bribe from a school for issuing a no objection certificate in the aftermath of the 2005 Kumbakonam school fire tragedy th…
Air France and Lufthansa on Tuesday operated flights from India to Paris and Munich today after a six-day disruption caused by volcanic ash from Iceland but services to other European destinations remained suspended.
Hopes for an earl…
Six Afghans were arrested on the charge of carrying fake passports at NSC Bose International airport on Tuesday.
Airport sources said officials suspected their identity from looks as they produced Nepali passports at the time of imm…
An Indo-Canadian author's debut novel has been selected to join the works of literary greats like Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie,
Rudyard Kipling and E M Forster in the BA Honours English Programmme at a Canadian unive…
With the London airport opening up after wide-spread flight disruptions caused by volcanic ash from Iceland, Air India and Jet Airways on Wednesday readied themselves to resume operation to the UK.
However, Kingfisher Airlines is …
The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture, has launched and inaugurated national and regional planning committees for National Festival of Arts and Culture 2010 (NAFAC 2010), in Tamale in the Northern Region.
The celebration is under t…
Madam Betty Bosomtwi-Sam, Deputy Western Regional Minister, on Wednesday said most forest reserves in the country are under serious siege from miscreants.
She said chainsaw operators, illegal miners and farmers are plundering the nat…
Nine children, made up of four boys and five girls failed to show up at the on-going Basic Education Certificate Examination in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam district.
The District Director of Education, Mr Isaac Amonoo, made this known t…
The Scholarship Division of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has donated a photocopier machine and accessories worth GHc 20, 000 to the Ghana School of Surveying and Mapping.
Presenting the electronic gadgets on Wednesday to the schoo…
Representatives of member states at the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Parliament would be elected by direct universal adult suffrage at the end of 2010, Mr. John Tia Akologu, the Minister of Information, has said.
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Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning is leading a Ghanaian delegation to the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, scheduled for April 22 to April 30 in Washington D. C.
The delegation is made up of officials from…
The final funeral rites for Mr. Ben Entwi, who died on 18th February, 2010 comes of on Saturday, 24 April, 2010 after burial service at the Bethel Methodist Church Community 8 Tema.
This will be followed by thanksgiving service at th…
Mr. Michael Pentsil, Assistant Regional Manager of the Forest Services Division, on Wednesday said the Forestry Commission (FC) is considering a new policy on lumber to help check chainsaw operations.
About 80 per cent of lumber on t…
The Health Directorate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has vowed to prevent the sale of unwholesome food on campus.
Dr Yaw Bio, the Health Director, said the directorate would ensure that high standa…
A public forum to deepen understanding and whip up enthusiasm in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system, has been held at Bibiani in the Western Region.
Mr Justice Marful Sau, an Appeal Court Judge, said it would help to eas…
Once a fierce opponent to the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal inked during the previous Bush era, the Obama Administration's nuclear non-proliferation czar Ellen Tauscher is now in the forefront of US efforts to implement the landmark treaty…
The National Service Secretariat remained the only authority mandated to post prospective Service personnel to places it deemed to be in the national interest.
Mr Vincent Kuagbenu, Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (N…
The timely arrival of a Police patrol team from Dzodze prevented a gang of armed robbers from robbing passengers on the Dzodze-Tadzewu road, on Monday.
The gang blocked the road and shot into a vehicle carrying passengers but fled in…
Only two candidates were absent out of 1,552 candidates on the first day of the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in Ho.
Supervisors at centre A, Mawuli School and centre B, at OLA Senior High School could not tell why …
An Australian court, hearing the case of Indian American doctor Jayant Patel, was Tuesday told that a patient who died after being operated by the surgeon was fully aware of the risk of death but chose the procedure as it was the best opti…
The Twifo Oil Palm Plantation (TOPP) Basic School has climaxed its Golden Jubilee celebration at Twifo Ntefrewaso with pomp and pageantry.
The ceremony coincided with the third Annual Speech and Prize Giving Day of the school.
Cu…
Government is to hold "Ghana Policy Fair 2010", to offer Ghanaians the opportunity to evaluate policies being implemented to determine their relevance to socio-economic development.
The fair scheduled for Tuesday, April 27 - Saturday…
Assembly members have been asked to rise above partisan politics and unite towards the development and progress of their areas.
The District Chief Executive for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai, Mr Moses Kofi Armah, who made the appeal, told …
Mr Mike Hammah, Minister of Transport, on Tuesday asked candidates writing this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) not to panic but to be careful in approaching all the subjects.
He said examinations were the proc…
An Invigilator at the Mater Ecclesiae Preparatory School Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) Centre at Sokode-Gbogame said invigilators needed to be served snacks to prevent them from leaving their assignments in search of food.…
Government has released twenty-nine million, seven hundred and sixty thousand, six hundred and twenty-five Ghana Cedis (GH¢29,760,625.00) to pay off capitation grants due basic schools for the
second and third terms of the 2009/2010 acad…
The Mfantseman Municipal Assembly has donated building materials worth about GHC1,200 to the Ghana Muslim Mission to support them in the expansion of a mosque at Mankessim.
Making the presentation, Mr. Henry Kweku Hayfron, Municipal …
The Member of Parliament for Gomoa West, Mr. Francis Kojo Arthur, has pledged to offer scholarships to any student who scores aggregate six to eight in the on-going Basic Education
Certificate Examination in the Gomoa West District.
…
The Volta River Authority (VRA) on Tuesday urged fishermen to stay clear from the authority's Single Point Mooring (SPM) facility which is used to pump light crude oil from oil tankers at sea to the Takoradi Thermal Plant.
Mr. Jacob…
Citizens of Dankyira on Tuesday appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Paul Quaye and Greater Accra Regional Security Council (GAREGSEC), to intensify investigations and arrest and prosecute culprits behind the disturbances in t…
The Board of the Postal and Courier Services Regulatory Commission (PCSRC), on Tuesday assured Ghana Post and other courier operators that the Commission would initiate strategic policies to
ensure effective mailing service delivery in t…
Ms. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Science and Environment, on Monday called on the Institute of Engineers and the Ghana Standards Board to collaborate and check the influx of sub-standard
electrical appliances into the country.
She s…
The Overcomers International Bible Church, has planned to provide 50 boreholes for some selected communities in the Upper East and the Upper West Regions.
The 700,000 Ghana cedis project, which would be funded by the Church's relief …
Mr Kofi Opoku Manu, Ashanti Regional Minister, has called on sub-metropolitan district councils to be more accountable to win the people's support for accelerated socio-economic development.
He also asked councillors to operate accor…
The Kade District Magistrate's Court on Tuesday remanded in prison custody Kwadwo Amakye, a farmer, charged for being in possession of four wrappers of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
He will appear in court again on April …
The US Monday said that only a "few" things were left in the implementation of Indo-US civil nuclear pact and they will be settled.
However, refusing to comment on the present crisis over the civil nuclear liability bill in the Parl…
The country's first robot-assisted urological surgery was today conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here.
The operation was carried out by Dr P N Dogra,
Professor and Head, Department of Urology, on a 50-…
India, China and Nepal have joined hands to develop a common conservation strategy and environmental monitoring plan for the fragile Greater Mount Kailash region.
This is a first step towards developing a regional cooperation framewor…
Weather scientists are closely tracking the dispersal of volcanic ash over Europe and would study its impact over the south-west monsoon if it persists for more than a month.
Ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption in South Ic…
Over 40 per cent of children under five years of age in India are underweight, according to the latest National Family Health Survey.
In a written reply to the Upper House of Parliament, the Ministry of Women and Child Development ter…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, has appealed to candidates of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to do independent work to forestall any cancellation of their papers.
He told them that the exami…
A labourer at a diamond mine charged with four counts of threat of harm, resisting arrest, offensive conduct and causing harm has been remanded in prison custody by the Kade District Magistrate's court.
The plea of Wofa Yaw was not t…
A severe rainstorm at the weekend ripped off the roofs of about 170 buildings at Akyem Wenchi, Soabe and Takrowasi all in the Kwaebibirem District, causing extensive damage to the buildings.
The Member of Parliament for the Akwatia c…
Think Education Ghana (TEG), a non-governmental organization (NGOs) dedicated to promotion of education, has appealed to candidates to abide by the rules and regulations of the Basic Education
Certificate Examination (BECE) and refrain f…
The Police Administration in Bawku has said it had put in place security measures to enable candidates to write the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the conflict ravaged Municipality.
The Bawku Divisional Police Comm…
The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs. Lucy Awini, has said the government was committed to fostering unity among women of all faith.
She said the government had set up educational institutions for girls as a strategy to help …
The 2010 Basic Education Certificate Examinations
(BECE) on Monday took off smoothly in Tema with an advice to candidates to justify themselves.
Nii Armah Ashitey, Greater-Accra Regional Minister who gave the advice, said the exami…
Flights to the UK and other European destinations of Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines remained cancelled for the sixth consecutive day
on Tuesday in the wake of huge clouds of volcanic ash emanating from Iceland.
Air …
Ghana is still at the control stage of Malaria programme, which embody the first step in the fight against the disease, Dr. Aba Baffoe-Wilmot, Medical Entomologist of National Malaria Control Programme said on Tuesday.
She said the s…